From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 15:16:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12156 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12041 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:15:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA088370888965173; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:46:13 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id LAA28272; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:46:14 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20808; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:42:53 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08482; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:42:53 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:42:52 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Jack T. Hsieh" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot su In-Reply-To: <34FC7BF7.86607CD7@1connect.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Jack T. Hsieh wrote: > Hi , > I just installed the FreeBSD 2.2.5 on my computer. > The problem I have is : > When I login other than root, I'm not able to su. I did make sure I > created the account in wheel group, but still no luck. Can someone help? Make sure that the account has entry in /etc/group for wheel. su looks in this file specifically, it doesn't inspect what the account's login-group is. -- VS-LBH-OBGURERQ-GB-QRPELCG-GUVF-LBH'YY-WHFG-SVAQ-GUNG-VG'F-WHFG-N-G BGNYYL-ZRNAVATYR[Jonathan Chen ]FF-ZRFFNTR-QRF VTARQ-GB-QENJ-VA-CRBCYR-JVGU-ABGUVAT-ORGGRE-GB-QB-TRG-N-YVSR-JVYYLN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message